When did Cairn of Creca take place?

Cairn of Creca took place in an uncertain year, Scotland.

Who won Cairn of Creca?

The victor at Cairn of Creca is disputed or unrecorded in the surviving sources.

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Unknown Era

Cairn of Creca

Scotland

Era

Unknown Era

Battle Type

Pitched Battle

Location

Scotland

Status

Unregistered

The Battle

History & Significance

Cairn of Creca was a pitched battle between opposing field armies, fought in Scotland. Which side prevailed is not recorded in the surviving sources, and its outcome is not conclusively established in the historical record.

The ground

The ground they fought on

The site of Cairn of Creca lies on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.

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Battlefields

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Roman Britain

The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.

Stat Accounts

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Civil War

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Geology

The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.

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Historical Maps

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Protected heritage nearby

Scheduled Monuments near Cairn of Creca

Robgill Tower, fort 90m NW of

Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~1.6 mi

Robgill Tower is an Iron Age fort situated in Dumfriesshire, south-western Scotland, protected as a scheduled monument. The fort occupies a defensible position above the local landscape, its ramparts and ditches taking advantage of the underlying Triassic bedrock of interbedded sandstone and cong…

Woodhouse Tower, tower house

Scheduled monument · ~1.7 mi

Woodhouse Tower is a tower house located in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. This defensive residential structure stands upon Triassic sandstone and conglomerate bedrock, characteristic of the geological foundation across much of south-western Scotland. The underlying strata provided both the stone for c…

Merkland Cross, Woodhouse

Scheduled monument · ~1.9 mi

Merkland Cross is a woodhouse located in Dumfriesshire, southwestern Scotland, situated on bedrock of Triassic sandstone and conglomerate. The underlying geology reflects the ancient desert environments that characterised this region during the Triassic period, when layered deposits of sand and g…

Otter / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons

Gleningle, enclosure 80m NE of

Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~2.6 mi

Gleningle Enclosure is a post-medieval field boundary situated 80 metres north-east of Gleningle itself in Dumfriesshire, south-west Scotland. The monument comprises a substantial stone-built enclosure that reflects the agricultural reorganisation and land management practices of early modern Sco…

St Bryde's Kirk, church 95m W of Brydekirk Mains

Scheduled monument · Medieval · ~2.7 mi

St Bryde's Kirk is a medieval church located 95 metres west of Brydekirk Mains in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. The site occupies sandstone bedrock of the Border Group formation, geology that would have provided accessible building stone for the church's construction. The kirk represents an important…

Roman fortlet, 110m southeast of 3 Broadlee Cottages

Scheduled monument · ~2.7 mi

Broadlee Fortlet is a Roman fortlet situated in Dumfriesshire, south-west Scotland, approximately 110 metres south-east of Broadlee Cottages. The monument lies upon bedrock of the Yoredale Group, a Carboniferous geological formation comprising interbedded limestone, argillaceous rocks and subordi…

Robgill Mains, cairn 320m E of

Scheduled monument · ~1.4 miles

Woodhead,enclosure 200m NE of

Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~1.5 miles

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Sources

Cairn of Creca · Canmore

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